Phil Klay
Phil Klay is an acclaimed American author and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, best known for his debut collection "Redeployment," which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2014. His insightful works focus on themes of war and its aftermath, drawing from his own experiences in Iraq. Klay's writing is celebrated for its authenticity and depth, exploring the complexities of modern military life and its impact on individuals.
Book summaries for books written by Phil Klay
Quotes
It’s a weird thing when you realize that the guy who signed up to kill people might be the good guy and you might be the bad guy.
You can tell them about the war, but they’ll never understand it. War is worse than drugs. At least with drugs, you get a moment of happiness when you take them.
If there’s a single lesson that life teaches us, it’s that wishing doesn’t make it so.
People will do anything, anything to justify a war.
You know what the thing about a shark is? You’ve got to keep moving. You stop, you die.
There’s a lot of ways to be haunted, and not all of them involve ghosts.
The thing about war is that it only works if both sides believe they’re the good guys.
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns.
I was living a story that was written by someone else, and I did whatever it took to keep the narrative from veering off course.
War is a nation’s way of eating its young.
There is no ultimate victory, as there is no ultimate defeat. The thing about war is that it only works if both sides believe they’re the good guys.
War is a strange thing, and it’s hard to make sense of it from the outside.